No password on the Vault?

drwtsn32 wrote in news:e0592e4f-b315-403e-88f2- snipped-for-privacy@v20g2000prb.googlegroups.com:

What's so bad about a password? You could use "boo" if nothing else strikes your fancy. Secure is better than insecure, even if you are absolutely sure your machine will never get stolen.

Might I "re-ask" this question where I received no response five weks or so ago:

I recently upgraded from Q Deluxe 1999 to Q2010 Home and Business (Canada)... yeah, yeah, I know!

The conversion was painless and perfectly executed. The 2010 "one big data file" threw me for a while.

However, today I made an error while setting up a new "savings" account, and in the process of trying to the boo-boo, Q2010 required permission by asking for a "transaction password".

I've never set one up... the only password I had with Q99 was the initial request when loading data, and that migrated successfully to

I managed to work around the error, but I'm now faced with no way to change any transaction if need be because I don't know this password, and I cannot set up a new one as Q2010 demands I provide the "old" one first!

I never had such a beast.

And no, it's not the same as my data password.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

I'm still faced with this "non-existent" password.

Check this link for an answer.

Transaction passwords protect all transactions before a certain date. After you set up a transaction password, Quicken will prompt you for the password before you can record changes to any of the transactions dated on or before the date you specified. (You might use a transaction password when you close an accounting period so that no one accidentally changes transactions within that period.)

Choose File menu > Open Quicken File to open the data file that contains the transactions you want to protect with a password. What does a transaction password protect? A transaction password protects only the transactions in a file before a specified date.

Choose File menu > Set Password to modify transactions. In the Password field, type the password. What are the password requirements? You can type up to 15 characters, including spaces. Quicken is case sensitive. This means that if you specify aBc987, you must type aBc987 and not abc987 or ABC987.

In the Confirm Password field, reenter the same password. In the Required For Dates Through field, enter the date of the last transaction you want the password to apply to. Click OK. What happens next? From now on, Quicken prompts you for the password before you can record changes to any of the transactions dated on or before the date you specified. You can use this as a reminder not to change transactions for a specific accounting period by setting the date for the close of the accounting period.

If you cannot remember your password, Intuit offers a password removal service.

Thanks for the lecture, but that's not what I asked... so I take it there is NO way to not have a password. Lame. It should be our choice.

I know all that.

You didn't read my message closely enough: Q2010 has taken upon itself to set a transaction password unbeknownst to me

I did not ask for it. I can't change a password I never set, nor know! To change a password, you have to enter the "old" one.

The only password that Q99 Deluxe required was my main log-in which also kicked in if I tried to change an "old" transaction.

That main password was pciked up by Q2010 normally, and is in use.

But I'm hooped if I ever want to change a transaction...

Yeah, Intuit provides a a removal service... at a cost and only by sending a data file physically to them.

I think not!

Well I read your post. Apparently you do not "know all that".

Intuit DID NOT "take it upon itself to set a transaction password"; what you have is data corruption.

Intuit does not charge for removing a password ... clearly you did not bother to check this before you posted.

FWIW, I agree with you. I too would like the choice too. I store my Quicken file on an encrypted volume so the required vault password offers no additional security to me, just an extra annoyance.

Bruce.

EXACTLY. Some of use TrueCrypt or other forms of protection. I am trying to transition from Microsoft Money... it did not force you to set a master password in order to remember passwords for downloading bank transactions. Wish Quicken would give us the same option.

Thanks, Rod

First, Intuit/Quicken do intimate that a fee is possible for password retrieval:

Now, let me re-phrase my problem:

I set up a new account in Q2010 -- in doing so, I make a mistake -- when I try to correct the mistake, Q requests that I enter a transaction password.

This is the first time I've experienced this while using Q2010 -- the only password that was in use with Q99 Deluxe was the "master" password which migrated successfully.

While using Q99, if I changed or corrected an entry, the "master" password permitted the change.

When in Q2010, I go to either set or change the "transaction" password, the pop-up box requires that the old password be entered before a new one can be applied.

The only "old" password is the master -- and the change password protocol won't recognise it.

If you wish to label that as a somehow corrupted file, so be it. To my mind, there is a password entered over which I have no knowledge or control.

Thank you.

If you wish to think that Intuit arbitrarily assigned a password to your Quicken data ... so be it.

P.S.

Since it's clear that you did not actually try to get the password removed, and you do not know whether you will have to pay a fee ... the rest of your complaint is meaningless.

"John Pollard" wrote in news:hmv3lg$m90$1 @news.eternal-september.org:

John, your replies like these 2 are only showing your frustration. They don't help you or anyone else. I am suggesting you write them on paper and burn them. I have a block on the name of the Intuit guy who used to help in years long passed. He went away in frustration. We don't want you to follow that route! PLEASE!!! You're too important!!!!

Glee, giggle, and double giggle. Triple giggle might be going too far.

My thanks to Mister Pollard for being so forthcoming with assistance, without even addressing the facts of my query/queries.

Yes, the whatever is just simply dripping off this message.

Han- See your (!) comment on 12/20/2003 in

"Andrew" wrote in news:4b94f653$0$4987$ snipped-for-privacy@cv.net:

As I said, I had a block on Bruce's name. Apart from that I recall him fondly. Thanks for reminding me!

I just tried, and Quicken 2010 requires at least 6 alphanumeric characters.

Quicken 2010 says it requires at least 6 alphanumeric characters. Space is not alphanumeric. However I tried it, and it accepted special characters too.

How about backing out to the previous version of your data files in the Backup directory?

On a broader scale - I keep my system and critical data on a relatively small C: drive (< 30 gigs). Every day at 3 am Acronis True Image does an incremental backup of this drive onto another much larger drive. Every couple of months I do a full backup, save it on some DVDs, and start the incremental backups over.

So if something gets blatzed, I can mount the backup for any given day and restore files from it. This saves my butt about once a month.

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